Social Network Analysis

Packages

• spatsoc - https://docs.ropensci.org/spatsoc/index.html facilitates spatial social network analysis using animal telemetry data
• aniSNA - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.593659v1.full - additional functions for calculating uncertainty in social networks, and permuating networks to compare against a random social network
• igraph - https://igraph.org/r/ - General package for making network graphs and calculating network metrics

Tutorials and resources

####spatsoc package documentation and tutorials - https://docs.ropensci.org/spatsoc/index.html - Robitaille, A. L., Webber, Q. M. R., & Vander Wal, E. (2019). Conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data: Applications and methods using spatsoc. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(8), 1203–1211. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13215

aniSNA package paper

• https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.593659v1.full

An introduction to social network analysis in R

• igraph package vignette - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/igraph/vignettes/igraph.html

Useful papers

(Farine and Whitehead 2015) - Farine, D. R., & Whitehead, H. (2015). Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis. The Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(5), 1144–1163. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12418

(Kaur et al. 2024) - Kaur, P., Ciuti, S., Ossi, F., Cagnacci, F., Morellet, N., Loison, A., Atmeh, K., McLoughlin, P., Reinking, A. K., Beck, J. L., Ortega, A. C., Kauffman, M., Boyce, M. S., Haigh, A., David, A., Griffin, L. L., Conteddu, K., Faull, J., & Salter-Townshend, M. (2024). A protocol for assessing bias and robustness of social network metrics using GPS based radio-telemetry data. Movement Ecology, 12(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00494-6

References

Farine, Damien R, and Hal Whitehead. 2015. “Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis.” The Journal of Animal Ecology 84 (September): 1144–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12418.

Kaur, Prabhleen, Simone Ciuti, Federico Ossi, Francesca Cagnacci, Nicolas Morellet, Anne Loison, Kamal Atmeh, et al. 2024. “A protocol for assessing bias and robustness of social network metrics using GPS based radio-telemetry data.” Movement Ecology 12 (August): 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00494-6.